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I have the Pixel 2015 with 16GB, and run Archlinux on it. It's awesome. There were some of the normal Linux hiccups early on (sound/trackpad had some issues) but they seem to have been completely ironed out now. It's a fantastic machine. I wish they'd make a 15" version!

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Thanks, this is exactly what I was hoping to hear. Curious if you dual boot Chrome/Arch or not; I plan to.

Nice! I'm running Arch only--ChromeOS seemed nice, but with storage at such a premium I'd rather just open up Chrome instead of having to partition the tiny drive. :)

Also: you probably want to use https://github.com/raphael/linux-samus to get started.

Doesn't it only have like 64GB of storage on it? How do you survive?

I've just purchased one, and to go along with it, I ordered a 128GB SD card and a 64GB USB C pen drive, bringing the total capacity to 256GB. The removable storage obviously won't be as fast, but I believe I can keep my daily work stuff and OS entirely on the SSD, and use the other storage for more extraneous things.

Obviously a 128GB SSD would've been preferable, but I think this strategy will work out.

OK. Sandisk SDs should support TRIM (provided the SD controller supports it too) so you could keep their performance up over the time.

I can confirm that Sandisk's 64GB microSD extreme pro is TRIMable on a raspberry pi.

I have a 128GB USB drive (a SanDisk Ultra Fit) that stays in the machine permanently, mounted to ~/ext, for anything non-dev-related. This has worked out fine for me--haven't ever really come close to filling up my drive, with the exception of a couple times when unused docker images built up over time. Definitely wouldn't recommend it if you're going to use the machine for photo backups or something, but as a secondary machine (I use a desktop 40% of the time) it's never really been an issue.

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